Electric battery.



No. 892,608. i' `EATENTED JULY 7, 1908. W. MORRISON.

ELECTRIC BATTERY. j

APPLICATION FILED AUG.11,1902.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

WILLIAM MORRISON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE RUMRILL CORYELL, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ELECTRIC BATTERY.

l No. 892,008. v

To alllwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, 4WILLIAM MORRISON, a

citizen of theUnited States of America, and

.min placed or deposited thereupon tends to remain in position in virtue of gravity. In

still another application filed concurrentlyherewith, No. 119,202, and hereinafter referred to, I have shown, described and claimed a coni aiu ng cell adapted for use in connection with the bromin gravity battery, the material thereof being carbon which is practically unaffected by the attacks of the bromin and the bottom of which cell also provides a negative element upon which the liquid bromin is electro deposited or placed and upon which it tends to remain in virtue of gravity. In still another a plication filed concurrentlyP herewith, and liereinafter referred to, No. 119,201, I. have illustrated, described and -claimed different means for maintaining the liquid bromin more stable upon-the negative element.

In my present a iplication I wish to illustrate, describe and1 claim another character of cell adapted for the employment of liquid bromin which is electro deposited or placed 4upon a negative element disqosed so that gravity will tend to cause the iquid bromin to remain distributed upon or throughout the negative element.

' My invention primarily consists in the employment of a containing cell of a material ada ted to withstand the attacks of the liquid -bromin which material may be glass,

porcelain or the like, and within the said. containing cell I dis ose a negative element -placed or electro deposited.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application led August 11, 1902. Serial No,l 119,204.

Patented July 7, 1908.

tral cross section view of a completed cell. Fig. 3, is an exterior perspective view of a completed cell.

The containing coll which is designated at A may be of glass or porcelain or other suitable material which is not injuriously affected by the bromin within it. Within the coll disposed at the bottom thereof is a negative element B which, as shown, is made up of a great multiplicity of pockets aV which are formed'infor upon the negative clement and which are adapted to receivc'and hold the liquid bromin electro deposited or placed upon the negative element, B. In this, my present application, I desire to claim as my invention an electric battery having a containing cell of a suitable material capable of Withstandingtho bromin attacks and having disposed in the bottom thereof a ,suitable negative element upon which the bromin is The feature of the pockets or recesses (zy has been embodied in another application tiled concurrently herewith, and this feature together with another` for holding the bromin in a more stable.

position is, as stated, embodied in a still further application filed concurrently herewith and I- do not herein, therefore, claim the feature of the ockets or recesses.A In this type of battery 1n which the containing coll is a non conductor it is unnecessary to employ an insulating band about the interior sides of the cell as is necessary or desirable in the case of vthe carbon cell as described in the applicaother suitable material may be supported upon a shoulder or ridge d formed on the in-' terior ol the sides of the cell. In the case of this battery also it is necessary toprovido an interior 1.1.nnl11ctor E insulated from the positive element l) and extending from the negative element to the terminal Il) on the exterior of the cell. 'lhe other terminal of the battery E is connected in the usual way by means of a conductor E" which is secured to thepositive element. f

The serial numbers of my co-pending applications are as follows: 119,201, 110,202, 119,203,and119,205.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a storage battery, the combination with a cell of non-conducting material, negative and positive elements, the negative element being mperforate, a. deposit of bromin supported entirely by the negative element, and means for preventing the deposit of bromin fiom being dis laced from its su ort.

2. ln a storage attery, the com mation with a cell of nen-conducting material, of positive and negative elements, and means for preventing the lateral displacement of bromin eleetrolyticelly deposited on the uppei surface of a negative element.

3. A storage battery c'omprsing e cell, a'

' eegeee positive and. negative element, e bromin electrolyte, the negative element being independent of the eell 01"' the battery, but so disposed that it is below che upper suffe-ce orv bound'- ary of the bromin electrolyteelly deposited when the battery is charged. Signed by me et Chicago, Coeli: county! lllinois, this dey of August 1902.

WILLll/I MGRRISN. l/Vitnesses: I

CHAS. C. BULKLEY, HARRY P. BAUMSAETNER. 

